With the first Delta Plan now adopted, the Delta Stewardship Council is turning their attention to implementing the comprehensive plan. Agenda item 10 for the June 27 Delta Stewardship Council meetingis an update on the progress of establishing an implementation committee and a brief discussion on how to select priorities and topics for Council oversight.

The process reworking California’s $11.1 billion water bond will apparently be based on this one-page statement of principles. At the bottom: “Retain policy prohibiting use of water bond funding for construction or mitigation of new water conveyance facilities in the Delta.”

On the day before the start of summer in June of 1980, Russian oceanographer/hydrologist/fisheries biologist and political exile Michael Rozengurt, along with American marine biologist Irwin Haydock, co-wrote then Gov. Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown Jr. a two-page letter warning that a proposed "Peripheral Canal" to funnel Northern California river water around the problem-plagued Delta, would result in the demise of the Delta ecosystem and its abundant fishery.

Maven's Minutes - Chair Anthony Rendon presents “Principles for Developing a Water Bond” to the Assembly Committee on Water, Parks, and Wildlife

07/03/2013

With the budget passed and the Legislature preparing to turn its attention to restructuring a new water bond,Anthony Rendon, Chair of the Assembly Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife, presented proposed Principles for Developing a Water Bond to Assembly members and the public at the July 2nd committee hearing.

Maven's Notebook - Slow yet steady progress being made on the State Water Board’s update to the Bay Delta Plan

07/01/2013

At its June 19 meeting, the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) heard a progress report on the update of the Bay Delta Plan, the water quality control plan that identifies the beneficial uses of the Delta’s waters and then sets water quality objectives to protect those uses.

The Delta Stewardship Council has already unanimously approved the Delta Plan and its Environmental Impact Report. "I think there are a lot of things missing," Goulart told the Solano County Board of Supervisors

Proposed plans to revamp the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to move water south will impact Solano County. The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will receive an update on Delta-related issues and activities.

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Coequal goals

The Delta Stewardship Council was created in legislation to achieve the state mandated coequal goals for the Delta. "'Coequal goals' means the two goals of providing a more reliable water supply for California and protecting, restoring, and enhancing the Delta ecosystem. The coequal goals shall be achieved in a manner that protects and enhances the unique cultural, recreational, natural resource, and agricultural values of the Delta as an evolving place." (CA Water Code §85054)

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